I've been playing Eldar since 3rd edition. I took a break through 4th and came back a bit in to 5th. Once 6th came out and Codex creep set in I've put them on the shelf for the past few months, waiting for the new Codex. Well the time has come, and I'm excited. I've made a few new purchases and am ready to add them to the army.
A lot of my army was painted when I first started playing. When I came back in 5th I added some new units and my painting had gotten better. Working through my Space Wolves I got a lot of painting practice on them. This project is to get done the new units and start updating my existing ones.
My first unit will be a Crimson Hunter. While the aspect is supposed to be red, I just went with my regular paint scheme. I wanted to try something new on this vehicle, so I got some painter's tape to try and put some stripes on it. My Craftworld's scheme is Dark Angels Green and Ultramarine blue, so I wanted to do green with blue stripes. I painted the blue areas I wanted the stripes on and and taped them over before airbrushing.
After this I airbrushed over it in green. After letting it dry I removed the tape, but it didn't go quite as well as I hopes. It seemed the paint had seeped in to some of the cracks under the tape. Also some of the tape glue stayed on. I just tried painting over it as I didn't want to scrape off any of the paint that was already there. Hoping it works out. So I touched it up and here's the end result. The lines look cleaner in person. I'll do a but more touching up to make the lines cleaner as I do some more work on it. But I liked how it came out for a first try.
Here's one of my Wave Serpents I painted a while ago for a vehicle comparison.
So I won't have any kind of schedule for this, I already failed at that for my Space Wolves TOXG thread. I do need to get a good amount painted for an 1850 tournament in August so I'll be updating this as I go along for that. This'll keep me motivated, and I'm already feeling motivated coming back to this army. Should be fun.
A lot of my army was painted when I first started playing. When I came back in 5th I added some new units and my painting had gotten better. Working through my Space Wolves I got a lot of painting practice on them. This project is to get done the new units and start updating my existing ones.
My first unit will be a Crimson Hunter. While the aspect is supposed to be red, I just went with my regular paint scheme. I wanted to try something new on this vehicle, so I got some painter's tape to try and put some stripes on it. My Craftworld's scheme is Dark Angels Green and Ultramarine blue, so I wanted to do green with blue stripes. I painted the blue areas I wanted the stripes on and and taped them over before airbrushing.


After this I airbrushed over it in green. After letting it dry I removed the tape, but it didn't go quite as well as I hopes. It seemed the paint had seeped in to some of the cracks under the tape. Also some of the tape glue stayed on. I just tried painting over it as I didn't want to scrape off any of the paint that was already there. Hoping it works out. So I touched it up and here's the end result. The lines look cleaner in person. I'll do a but more touching up to make the lines cleaner as I do some more work on it. But I liked how it came out for a first try.


Here's one of my Wave Serpents I painted a while ago for a vehicle comparison.

So I won't have any kind of schedule for this, I already failed at that for my Space Wolves TOXG thread. I do need to get a good amount painted for an 1850 tournament in August so I'll be updating this as I go along for that. This'll keep me motivated, and I'm already feeling motivated coming back to this army. Should be fun.